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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Ash Street

    • Brian Doyle
    • 18 May 2007

    Brian Doyle considers the people of his neighbourhood

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    The storycatcher charged with finding stories that matter

    • Brian Doyle
    • 15 May 2007
    5 Comments

    Brian Doyle said 'no' to an editor's request in the aftermath of September 11: "The only proper thing in your mouth at such a time is prayer." His kids had to reflect back to him: "Well, dad, you are always lecturing us about how if God gives you a talent and you don’t use that talent that’s a sin."

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    Welcome Home Dick Queen

    • Brian Doyle
    • 22 January 2007

    Dick Queen was released from captivity in July 1980 after the Iranians noticed he was getting really sick. He was one of 66 US hostages. Held at the height of summer, the Welcome Home Dick Queen party was everything you could ever want in a party.

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  • RELIGION

    A place where story and song make race and recrimination obsolete

    • Brian Doyle
    • 13 November 2006

    No politician or poet from the Old World will lead us there. It will be someone from the new lands, who mills ideas into food and education and healing for thousands of people, who understands that power only matters, finally, when it is a verb.

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    Footloose at the foot store

    • Brian Doyle
    • 14 May 2006

    Brian Doyle recalls a shopping excursion that was anything but pedestrian.

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    A song of believing

    • Brian Doyle
    • 14 May 2006

    Brian Doyle’s grace notes on the joys of everyday life.  

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    One cat, burned also

    • Brian Doyle
    • 11 May 2006

    Brian Doyle on community.

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    On taking to the bed

    • Brian Doyle
    • 11 May 2006
    4 Comments

    Refuge, retreat and redemption

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    How we wrestle is who we are

    • Brian Doyle
    • 08 May 2006

    Brian Doyle considers who we are and what we might become

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    All is grace

    • Christopher Gleeson
    • 30 April 2006

    Chris Gleeson investigates Brian Doyle’s The wet engine: Exploring the mad wild miracle of the heart.

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    Grinning and bearing it

    • Brian Doyle
    • 25 April 2006

    Brian Doyle makes the most of a furry situation.

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    Paws for reflection

    • Brian Doyle
    • 24 April 2006

    Brian Doyle succumbs to puppy love.

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